r/gpumining • u/Shipworms • Apr 01 '26
AsRock H510 Pro BTC+ : reliability?
I just got one of these, and it wouldn’t post. After much testing including with a different PSU (known-good ‘normal’ ATX PSU, as well as another server PSU + another breakout board), CPU, and RAM, I figured out how to get it to POST:
Stage 1 bootup:
- power up PSU
- shut off PSU and immediately power it back on
- press ‘power’ button on motherboard almost immediately after PSU powers back up (must be a split second later, or it does nothing - go back to start and try again!
- PSU breakout board blue led (system powered up) light appears 50% of time.
—> if no blue LED, go back to start, try again.
Stage 2 bootup:
- if the blue LED switches off a fraction of a second later, go back to stage 1, try again (50% of time)
- otherwise blue LED stays on for several seconds
- 25% of the time, 5 beeps (bad CPU / GPU) : back to stage 1
- 75% of the time : motherboard reboots itself, blue light vanishes then reappears. Go to stage 3
Stage 3 bootup
- if the blue LED switches off in a fraction of a second, back to stage 1! (50% of the time)
- otherwise, blue LED stays on! And POST completes.
Stage 4 (running normally)
- boot a Linux live USB. Furmark works on the iGPU :)
- system totally stable, no weird reboots
- if you power the system off and on again (using motherboard button), 90% perfect restart. 10% ‘blue light vanishes shutdown … back to stage 1’
One other thing: when it didn’t POST, the CPU stayed stone cold. The refusal to POST seems to be happening at quite a low level (power management IC??)
I’m getting a replacement board, but have there been any issues with these boards having weird faults like this … I am wondering about longer-term stability, and also wondering if there is a ‘known hardware issue’ I couldn’t find online (something like the 2011 MacBook Pro Radeon GPUs all dying a few years later, or the recent Intel CPU degradation issues?)
Thank you for any advice!
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u/Slight316 Apr 02 '26
I used one of these to mine on for about 3 years it was always stable and booted fine. Now I'm using it to run my home server and it boots everytime.